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Eucalyptus have announced that, with version 3.1 of the cloud software, they are returning to having a single open source product which will be developed in the open on Github

It's a cute little robot learning how to say "green" and "blue." And as part of a major project undertaken by robotics researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, it's also promising to transform perceptions of how robots -- and humans -- learn language. DeeChee, which is built to look, act and learn like a 6-to-14-month-old child, is the subject of a new research report.

The latest release of the open source content management system includes security updates and several improvements to the administration interface and user management functions

Google has donated $300,000 to the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University (OSU), which promotes open source development, and also hosts and mirrors a number of well known projects and organisations

Since AMD's decision to discontinue HD 2000/3000/4000 series support from the Catalyst driver plus other changes that upset some hardware owners, there's been some rumors that AMD may be discontinuing development of the Catalyst Linux driver and focus solely upon the open-source AMD Linux driver...

Perhaps they'll really imitate Apple and go to Foxconn Analysis If you want a job done right, do it yourself: that’s the consensus on the Windows 8 Surface tablets. Or, put another way: “OEMs, please pay attention. This is how you build a PC.”…

The LLVM compiler infrastructure provides a powerful way to optimize your applications regardless of the programming language you use. Learn to instrument code in LLVM, using the clang API to preprocess C/C+ code in this second article of a two-part series.

RandR 1.5 paired with the latest X.Org Server advancements allows for GPU offloading and USB GPU hot-plugging under Linux. Here are some demos of this technology finally working...

RIFS-ES V1 has been published as a new interactivity favor scheduler for the Linux kernel...

The open source software that powers the popular SourceForge project hosting site has been submitted to the Apache Incubator, the first step to becoming a top-level Apache project

While Intel's original GMA500 "Poulsbo" hardware is now more than four years old, this Intel Atom platform with PowerVR graphics continues to be a bloody mess under Linux...

In future, developers will be able to deliver JavaFX applications as zip, exe, msi, dmg or rpm native packages, making their applications easier to install and run; however, there are a number of drawbacks to the new delivery mode

Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S III smartphone will be the company's first device to be officially branded and sold under its new SAFE program. SAFE stands for "Samsung Approved for Enterprise." The Galaxy S III will be available in the U.S. from Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular in July.

For those that didn't hear yet, Intel's getting ready to ship the Larrabee-derived "Knights Corner" co-processors and they will be marketed under the name of Xeon Phi...

Last week I shared results from the Phoronix 12-core ARM Linux mini cluster that was constructed out of six PandaBoard ES development boards. Over the weekend, a 96-core ARM cluster succeeded this build. While packing nearly 100 cores and running Ubuntu Linux, the power consumption was just a bit more than 200 Watts. This array of nearly 100 processor cores was even powered up by a solar panel.

HTML and CSS for novices could re-ignite kiddie coding cogitation Mozilla has released a web page creation editing tool that steps novice users through HTML and CSS.…

Unity Technologies has announced that their upcoming Unity 4 game engine will support publishing of games on the Linux platform. Brian Fargo's Wasteland sequel is among the games that will use the new Linux support

What, we fire thousands and the shares go down? Analysis Last week Nokia did exactly what analysts have been begging it to do for years - it took an axe to the company's bureaucracy and purged the leadership. The latest 10,000 redundancies leave the company with its smallest workforce since 1998. Nokia's reward was a further 18 per cent fall in its share price. Thanks, markets.…

A researcher has reported that the performance improvements that SPDY brings to the web may be a lot less than suggested. Meanwhile an Nginx developer rolls out the first test release of their SPDY implementation

The developers of the Nouveau project have released version 1.0.0 of their open source graphics driver for X.org. With this release, the last part of the free driver stack for NVIDIA graphics components has left beta state